arrtttrt. 



ON THE MILK-SAP OF PLANTS. 



" Here is a juice that swift intoxicates." 



FAUST. 



The vignette represents an Indian family busied in the preparation 

 of Cassava from the Mandioc : the wife is dipping one of her hus- 

 band's arrows in the poisonous milky juice dropping from the com- 

 pressed mass of bruised roots. 



